Love & loss

Love and Loss brings together twenty-one bittersweet stories by some of the foremost women writers of this century exploring the loss of love. Elizabeth Bowen, Janette Turner Hospital, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Doris Lessing, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, Dorothy Parker, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf and twelve others confront the frailty of love and the desolation that can come with its loss, while discovering new sources of comfort and celebrating love that endures. A couple's. Marriage breaks down when a shared fantasy world dies; a mother obscures her loneliness with irascible complaints to her son; a young woman haunts her ex-lover's seedy neighbourhood; a woman whose husband has left her sails triumphantly into the distance during a flood. Whether poignant or playful, devastating or exuberant, these stories reach into the corners of the heart.